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Institute of Popular Music Events

In addition to its annual workshop and networking event, the IPM hosts an Annual Summer School with the University of Rochester and the Society for Music Analysis. It also runs special conferences, symposia, seminars, exhibitions, and research training events. 

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Greatest Hits, Friday 7 June 2024

Institute of Popular Music, University of Liverpool

Posted on: 21 May 2024

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Challenge and Change in Popular Music

This summer, the Institute of Popular Music and Department of Music host Challenge and Change in Popular Music, an international conference organised in collaboration with the International Association for the Study of Popular Music.

Posted on: 8 August 2022

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Dave Laing PhD Scholarship at the Institute of Popular Music

Applications are invited for the Dave Laing PhD Scholarship funded by the Margaret Wethered Bequest.

Posted on: 8 August 2022

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Chilean Pena

An evening of live music, spoken word, dance and film to celebrate the music and culture of Chile in Liverpool and present the Robert Bring-Mill Collection, part of the archive of the Institute of Popular Music at the University of Liverpool.

Posted on: 28 March 2022

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Dave Laing PhD Scholarship in Music

Applications are invited for the Dave Laing PhD Scholarship funded by the Margaret Wethered Bequest.

Posted on: 14 October 2021

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IPM Launches New Podcast

Chile en Liverpool - Episode One - Music & Memories / Música & Memorias

Posted on: 27 September 2021

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Proximities - a new lecture series presented by the Institute of Popular Music

The Institute of Popular Music at the University of Liverpool invites you to a new lecture series, Proximities.

Posted on: 30 April 2021

Music and the 'sweet science' of boxing - a public lecture with Dr Simran SinghMusic and the

Music and the 'sweet science' of boxing - a public lecture with Dr Simran Singh

IPM associate researcher Dr Simran Singh will be giving a public lecture as part of the University of Liverpool's 2021 Series of Public Lectures in the Arts.

Posted on: 22 April 2021

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A Women's History of The Beatles

Liverpool Literary Festival welcomes Dr Christine Feldman-Barrett, author of A Women’s History of the Beatles and Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science at Griffith University, Australia, in conversation with Dr Holly Tessler, IPM associate, Lecturer and Beatles expert.

Posted on: 5 March 2021

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